Todd R. Weiss

On the heels of its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this past May, Google is already prepared to start parceling out the bits of the company it doesn’t want. Google apparently wants to get out of the set-top box business owned by Motorola Mobility and has hired Barclays to help sell the Home Business […]

Google is bolstering the appeal of Google+ to businesses by adding innovative workplace tools that the search giant hopes will bring in new business users for its ever-expanding services. The new Google+ features include giving business users the ability to control who can see their posts on Google+, video conferencing that’s integrated with other Google […]

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, who captivated the imaginations of Earth’s population when he took the first human step onto the moon in 1969, died Aug. 25, but his death didn’t pass without a poignant technology note from two staff members with Google’s Inside Search blog. “The two of us are old enough to remember […]

With Hurricane Isaac now bearing down on New Orleans, companies that learned hard IT lessons from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 are now waiting to find out if they are ready for the latest powerful storm to wallop the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac certainly isn’t nearly as powerful as Katrina was back on […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking a new look at longtime in-flight safety policies that have banned the use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) aboard airliners, a move that would hearten the legion of business travelers who carry a widening array of devices with them when they fly. One key issue that won’t be […]

Since Google introduced “Google Instant” back in September 2010 to help Web searchers refine their searches and find relevant results more quickly, there’s been less need for users to click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google’s home page. With the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, users, could click and let Google provide its best guess […]

With the ink not yet even dry on the California jury verdict Aug. 24 that gave Apple a $1 billion victory in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung, an internal memo released by Samsung says that it is not giving up in its legal fight against the allegations. “The [U.S. District Court for the Northern District […]

It’s “Punch Buggy,” but without the pain. As part of a new marketing campaign, Google Street View is being used to bring the classic Volkswagen Beetle “Punch Buggy” game to online customers around the globe by displaying Street View images taken in Cape Town, South Africa, and asking viewers to click on the VWs that […]

You probably haven’t heard of the tiny hamlet of Cambridge Bay in Canada’s Arctic, but now you can explore it visually through the latest Google Maps Street View project, which is capturing images there for preservation in Street View’s ever-expanding global gallery. The project is being undertaken to continue to build the most comprehensive and […]

On the heels of a $22.5 million fine from the Federal Trade Commission in July for allegedly bypassing the privacy settings of Apple’s Safari Web browser, Google is looking to hire a new privacy engineer for its Privacy Red Team that adds an extra layer of scrutiny to its security practices. In a posting on […]